phpmyadmin and lighttpd and debian = 404 - Not Found

[Karol Krizka]

Binary package hint: phpmyadmin

I first installed lighttpd using aptitude and then I did sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin and selected the option to automatically configure lighttpd. Then I reloaded lighttpd as instructed, and finally pointed my browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin. There I got the error 404 - Not Found.

I am not sure where the problem lies, because I also manually tried to enable the phpmyadmin on lighttpd by typing it lighty-enable-mod phpmyadmin and I was informed that it was already enabled. The file /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/50-phpmyadmin.conf exists and links to /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/50-phpmyadmin.conf which links to /etc/phpmyadmin/lighttpd.conf. Also the problem persists after I restarted my computer, so there wasn't a problem with lighttpd not reloading the configuration.

Is there a logfile that I can look to to see if there are some problems? errors.log and access.log don't show anything out of place.

[Karol Krizka (kkrizka)]

I forgot to mention, I am running Hardy Heron and lighttpd 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 and phpmyadmin 2.11.3-1.

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

I'm having the exact same problem, but under gusty.

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

found something - if you run http://yourhost/phpmyadmin/index.php, it works.
Looks like lighttpd is unable to locate index.php, or maybe mod_alias isn't working....

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Dear reporter,

fun part: lighttpd ships a configuration with this as default:

## files to check for if .../ is requested
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
                               "index.htm", "default.htm",
                               "index.lighttpd.html" )

so index.php needs to be recognized...mod_alias is enabled by default.

To get the real bug:

1. Read http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/DebugVariables
2. Set them to the highest level...
3. Reproduce it
4. Check /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
5. Attach your error logs in this bug.

Thx for your help,

\sh

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

Stephan,

Did that.

I think most of the debug variables discribed there doesn't work, because of that :

2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: debug.dump-unknown-headers (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: debug.log-condition-cache-handling (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: auth.debug (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: proxy.debug (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: proxy-core.debug (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: simple-vhost.debug (ignored)
2008-04-03 18:10:27: (server.c.915) WARNING: unknown config-key: webdav.log-xml (ignored)

But I think I got a good error log. Can you please take a look at it ?

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

I finally figured out why the bug happens:

http://localhost/phpmyadmin -> no good
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ -> works!

Chaning my settings to this :

alias.url = ("/phpmyadmin" => "/usr/share/phpmyadmin")

Fully solved the issue. Please, fix it!!

Thanks,

[Michal Čihař (nijel)]

Debian package ships with this:

alias.url += (
    "/phpmyadmin" => "/usr/share/phpmyadmin",
)

You need to change it to make it work or Ubuntu uses some different config?

[Wladston Viana (wladston)]

if you are 100% sure that the default setting is this one, you can mark the bug as fixed, those are the settings that make it work.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Yes, the default is "/phpmyadmin" => "/usr/share/phpmyadmin".
Marking "Fix released".

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

It's not a bug in PHPMyAdmin

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

The title is misleading, it has nothing to do with PHPMyAdmin. I've linked the Debian bug, please read it. If you comment out these lines in /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-cgi.conf, aliases will work again:

$HTTP["remoteip"] == "127.0.0.1" {
       alias.url += ( "/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/" )
       $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
               cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
       }
}

Otherwise Lighttpd tries to access files in the document-root directory.

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

Also see Debian bug #386568 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386568 )

[Simon Hirscher (codethief)]

I can't confirm the bug on Ubuntu server 10.04. Installed lighttpd; enabled ssl, simple-vhost and fastcgi; installed php5-cgi and php5-mysql; installed phpmyadmin. Went to "mydomain.com/phpmyadmin" => phpMyAdmin login prompt! :)

[Simon Hirscher (codethief)]

Oops, didn't look at the date. I think we can close this now…